Hi everyone,
currently i am looking for a safety-plc-solution in combination for our plc which is running rtai and etherlab master with the latest pull from the source-forge hg repository. I am thinking about using a fully configurated FSOE-Master (Savety-over-Ethercat) with slaves which should communicate with the ethercat master for (unsafety) information exchange. In my little research, I found an email-talk from this list as follows: >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 05:03:38PM +0100, Thomas Elste wrote: > > Moreover, I have not engaged in this, and don't know, what is necessary > > to make slaves communicate with each other... Do you have more > > background information than I do? > Not that I'm aware of. In principle, nothing more should have to be done > than to tell the relevant slaves to read/write from/to the same logical > address by configuring the sm/fmmus accordingly. Everything else should > then depend on the bus topology. Afaik this is the theory, :). I spoke to a few people about this, in the meantime. The general way to allow slave to communicate with each other is simply to exchange their Pdos as usual and to copy the data of the sending slave into the data range of the receiving slave. At least this is the way, Safety-over-EtherCAT (FSoE) is operated. Your proposal is possible, in principle, but it depends on the bus topology, as you said. The master currently has no interface for this. The current implementation provides disjunctive logical process data ranges for each slave, by default. << Did anyone tried it out if the slave-to-slave communication works (i.e. in an earlier version of the etherlab-master)? I know, I am self-responsible configuring the FSOE-Master and slave, but that is not the point. Will I am be successful by buying fsoe-components, implement them in my module and run it without doing any changing on the etherlab-master code itself? Have anyone ever run a Safety-over-Ethercat solution via the etherlab-master? Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards i.A. Daniel Koch Elektronik/Software ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG Max-Paul-Str. 1 | 88525 Duermentingen | Deutschland/Germany Phone: +49 (7371) 500 - 0 | Fax: +49 (7371) 500 - 111 Mail: softw...@paul.eu <mailto:softw...@paul.eu> | Web: www.paul.eu <http://www.paul.eu/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kommanditgesellschaft, Sitz Duermentingen, Registergericht Ulm HRA 650073, Pers. haftende Gesellschafterin: Paul Maschinenfabrik GmbH, Sitz Riedlingen, Registergericht Ulm HRB 650013, GF: Werner Paul, USt-IdNr. DE146544409
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